Henrique
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Henrique is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Henry.
- PTPortugal1 in 531◐
- BRBrazil1 in 693
- VEVenezuela1 in 25K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈309K ●
- #459 ●
- Sources
- 264 ●
- 1 in 693 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
439K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Henríque in SV El Salvador.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #85 | 305,630 | 395K rec. | 1 in 693 | 306K | Henrique | 264 |
| PT Portugal | #89 | 15,809 | 6.3K rec. | — | listed | Henrique | 156 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 7,678 | 7.8K rec. | — | 817 | Henrique | 46 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,310 | 3.5K rec. | — | 219 | Henrique | 58 |
| US United States | — | 2,061 | 15K rec. | 1 in 161K | 2.1K | Henrique | 258 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,219 | 935 rec. | — | listed | Henrique | 85 |
| PY Paraguay | #796 | 1,211 | 659 rec. | — | — | Henrique | 18 |
| CL Chile | — | 968 | 224 rec. | — | 2 | Henrique | 34 |
| AO Angola | #49 | 924 | 751 rec. | — | 7 | Henrique | 42 |
| CO Colombia | — | 790 | 279 rec. | — | — | Henrique | 40 |
| UY Uruguay | #819 | 546 | 395 rec. | — | — | Henrique | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 487 | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 103K | 487 | Henrique | 90 |
Roughly 306K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 693). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese5.4M93%
- English322K6%
- Spanish22K1%
- French13K1%
- ptbr7.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 5,434,884 | 93% |
| English | 322,037 | 6% |
| Spanish | 21,615 | 1% |
| French | 13,436 | 1% |
| ptbr | 7,813 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Henrique is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
senhor da casa; lord of the house
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 17 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 24 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 23 |
| 2021 | 19 |
| 2022 | 39 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 31 |
| 2025 | 31 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1966–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Prince Henry the Navigatorb. 1394PTnot in their usual namePortuguese prince and governor (1394–1460)
- Henry IVb. 1473DEnot in their usual nameDuke of Saxony
- Henry I of Portugalb. 1512PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal
- Infanta Marie Anne of Portugalb. 1861NLnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)
- Infante Afonso, Duke of Oportob. 1865PTnot in their usual namePortuguese Royal (1865–1920)
- Fernando Henrique Cardosob. 1931BRPresident of Brazil from 1995 to 2003
- Henrique Caprilesb. 1972VEVenezuelan politician and lawyer
- Fabinho Tavaresb. 1993BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1993)
- Gustavo Scarpab. 1994BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Arthur Melob. 1996BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 67 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 306K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 304K | #95 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 229K | #229 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 35K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #7,398 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #95 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2022 | 1.1K | #2,645 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 817 | #1,830 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 487 | #4,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 432 | #51,968 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 395 | #2,502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 332 | #60,636 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 299 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Henrique?
- We estimate roughly 309 thousand people bear Henrique (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Henrique have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 306 thousand people bear Henrique in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled henrique.
- How common is Henrique compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Henrique is the 85th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Henrique a male or female name?
- Henrique is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Henrique mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Henrique” — the 85th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.